Entrants may choose to enter one or more sections of this salon. Four images per section are permitted.
Open Colour
There are no limits to subject matter in this section.
A colour photograph is any photograph that is not monochrome. It includes a monochrome photograph that has been partially toned or had colour added.
Open Monochrome
There are no limits to subject matter in this section.
An image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no colour (i.e. contains only shades of gray which can include pure black and pure white)
OR
it gives the impression of being a grayscale image that has been toned in one colour across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.)
A grayscale or multi-colored image modified or giving the impression of having been modified by partial toning, multi toning or by the inclusion of spot colouring does not meet the definition of monochrome and shall be classified as a Colour photograph.
Nature
Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality.
Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves. Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.
No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning. Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed.
Stitched digital photographs are not permitted.
All allowed adjustments must appear natural. Colour digital photographs can be converted to greyscale monochrome. Infrared digital photographs, either direct-captures or derivations, are not allowed.
Digital photographs used in Nature Photography competitions may be divided in two classes: Nature and Wildlife.
Digital photographs entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes digital photographs taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food.
Digital photographs entered in Wildlife sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above are further defined as one or more extant zoological or botanical organisms free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. Landscapes, geologic formations, photographs of zoo or game farm animals, or of any extant zoological or botanical species taken under controlled conditions are not eligible in Wildlife sections.
Wildlife is not limited to animals, birds and insects. Marine subjects and botanical subjects (including fungi and algae) taken in the wild are suitable wildlife subjects, as are carcasses of extant species.
Wildlife digital photographs may be entered in Nature sections of Exhibitions.
Landscape/Seascape
Landscape
A landscape is a photograph of non-urban scenery that depicts the form of the land through the use of composition and light.
Rivers and lakes, people, animals, part of the sea, man-made structures and/or agricultural land use may be present as incidental to the photograph and, where included, must support the depiction of the form and features of the landscape. None of these elements should visually dominate the overall photograph.
Seascape
A seascape is a photograph of natural coastal scenery, a wave study, or a picture of the open sea, provided always that the sea is the centre of interest of the photograph.
People, boats and man-made structures may be present as incidental to the photograph and, where included, must support the depiction of the form and features of the seascape. None of these elements should visually dominate the overall photograph.
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